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Setting Port Security on a Cisco Catalyst Switch

Posted by Admin on 29th January 2008

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If you want to ensure that only a certain device—for example, a server—is plugged into a particular switch port, you can configure the MAC address of the server as a static entry associated with the switch port.

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Access Network When Everything Else is Blocked Using ptunnel

Posted by Admin on 16th January 2008

Ptunnel is an application that allows you to reliably tunnel TCP connections to a remote host using ICMP echo request and reply packets, commonly known as ping requests and replies. At first glance, this might seem like a rather useless thing to do, but it can actually come in handy in some cases. The following example illustrates the main motivation in creating ptunnel:

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Howto Setup Cisco Router Auxiliary,Console and Telnet Passwords

Posted by Admin on 18th December 2007


There are five passwords used to secure your Cisco routers: console, auxiliary, telnet (VTY),enable password, and enable secret. Just as you learned earlier in the chapter, the first two passwords are used to set your enable password that’s used to secure privileged mode. This will prompt a user for a password when the enable command is used. The other three are used to configure a password when user mode is accessed either through the console port, through the auxiliary port, or via Telnet.

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Monitoring Servers,Network Devices with Opmanager

Posted by Admin on 11th December 2007

OpManager is a network monitoring software that can automatically discover your network; group your devices into intuitive maps, monitor devices in real-time and alert instantaneously on failure. It serves as a complete network monitoring solution by providing complete fault and performance functionality across your WAN and LAN infrastructure.

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Howto Recover Cisco Router Password

Posted by Admin on 22nd November 2007

This ‘How to’ is written to show the step by step password recovery of the Cisco Routers. It is assumed that you have a prior knowledge of what a router is and its basic function. It is also assumed the you are having some experience of configuring the router.

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Cisco Layer 2 Switch Functions

Posted by Admin on 18th November 2007

Layer 2 switch is A network device that forwards traffic based on MAC layer (Ethernet or Token Ring) addresses.

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